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permissivist noun. In linguistics circles, a person who blindly welcomes all new coinages, grammatical shifts, and usage changes.

Example Citation:
"By now you must be thinking that I am a flaming permissivist who adopts as a household pet any new use that crawls out of the language woodwork."
—Richard Lederer, Adventures of a Verbivore

Related Word:
slanguist

Subject Categories:
Language - General
Sociology - People

Posted on November 22, 1997 at 10:06 PM


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